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New popular reading titles – August

August 2nd, 2010

Come browse the newest popular reading titles in Zumberge Library’s Café Bibliothèque and the Steelcase Library Reading Room! You can also search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors. Did you know books from this collection can be delivered to any of the GVSU libraries, including the Frey Foundation Learning Center? It’s easy – just ask us how! You can give us a call at 616-331-3500 or chat with us.

Below are the latest titles received. Stay tuned for further additions; new titles arrive every month!

Zumberge:

  • The lion by Nelson DeMille
  • My name is memory by Ann Brashares
  • The passage by Justin Cronin
  • Insatiable by Meg Cabot
  • Backseat saints by Joshilyn Jackson
  • Sizzling sixteen by Janet Evanovich
  • The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
  • Hailey’s war by Jodi Compton
  • Twilight at the world of tomorrow by James Mauro
  • The devil amongst the lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb
  • In the name of honor by Richard North Patterson
  • Supreme justice by Philip Margolin
  • The search by Nora Roberts
  • Rules of betrayal by Christopher Reich
  • Private by James Patterson

Steelcase:

  • The Faculty Club by Danny Tobey
  • Cum laude by Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Broken by Karin Slaughter
  • After the fall by Kylie Ladd
  • The nobodies album by Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Family ties by Danielle Steel
  • The Dog Park Club by Cynthia Robinson
  • The transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson
  • 32 candles by Ernessa T. Carter
  • Sh*t my dad says by Justin Halpern

New titles in popular reading collections at Zumberge and Steelcase

June 2nd, 2010

Come browse the newest popular reading titles in Zumberge Library’s Café Bibliothèque and the Steelcase Library Reading Room! You can also search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors. Did you know books from this collection can be delivered to any of the GVSU libraries, including the Frey Foundation Learning Center? It’s easy – just ask us how! You can give us a call at 616-331-3500 or chat with us.

Below are the latest titles received. Stay tuned for further additions; new titles arrive every month.

  • Known to evil by Walter Mosley
  • Take three by Karen Kingsbury
  • Capital betrayal by William Bernhardt
  • Swan thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
  • The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • The killing edge by Heather Graham
  • The last time I saw you by Elizabeth Berg
  • A river in the sky by Elizabeth Peters
  • The inn at Angel Island by Thomas Kinkade
  • The walk by Richard Paul Evans
  • Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The aloha quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark
  • The shadow of your smile by Mary Higgins Clark
  • Every last one by Anna Quindlen
  • The double comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Eight days to live by Iris Johansen
  • Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
  • Handbook for lightning strike survivors by Michele Young-Stone
  • Deliver us from evil by David Baldacci
  • Laughed ’til he died by Carolyn Hart
  • November criminals by Sam Munson
  • The 9th judgment by James Patterson
  • American subversive by David Goodwillie
  • Lucid intervals by Stuart Woods
  • Get Capone by Jonathan Eig
  • The bedwetter by Sarah Silverman
  • Hellhound on his trail by Hampton Sides
  • The last stand by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Fever dream by Preston and Child
  • Tell-all by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Spoken from the heart by Laura Bush
  • Heart of the matter by Emily Giffin
  • War by Sebastian Junger
  • Dead in the family by Charlaine Harris
  • Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • The burning wire by Jeffery Deaver
  • Pride & prejudice & zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
  • A nation rising by Kenneth C. Davis
  • The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest by Stieg Larsson
  • Strip by Thomas Perry
  • Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
  • The ark by Boyd Morrison
  • The whole world by Emily Winslow
  • The rehearsal by Eleanor Cutton
  • Fade to midnight by Shannon McKenna

New titles in popular reading collections at Zumberge and Steelcase

March 16th, 2010

Come browse the newest popular reading titles in Zumberge Library’s Café Bibliothèque and the Steelcase Library Reading Room! You can also search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors. Did you know books from this collection can be delivered to any of the GVSU libraries, including the Frey Foundation Learning Center? It’s easy – just ask us how! You can give us a call at 616-331-3500 or chat with us.

Below are the latest titles received. Stay tuned for further additions; new titles arrive every month.

Zumberge Library:

  • Sizzle by Julie Garwood
  • Noah’s compass by Anner Tyler
  • Crawl space by Sarah Graves
  • Death of a valentine by M.C. Beaton
  • Kisser by Stuart Woods
  • Americans in Paris by Charles Glass
  • The brightest star in the sky by Marian Keyes
  • Worst case by James Patterson
  • I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
  • Ordinary thunderstorms by Willam Boyd
  • Book of fires by Jane Borodale
  • Shadow tag by Louise Erdrich
  • Poor little bitch girl by Jackie Collins
  • Eating the dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
  • Last snow by Eric van Lustbader
  • Split image by Robert B. Parker
  • Game over by Fern Michaels
  • Fantasy in death by J.D. Robb
  • Big girl by Danielle Steel
  • Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
  • Love is the best medicine by Dr. Nick Trout
  • House rules by Jodi Picoult
  • Think twice by Lisa Scottoline
  • They fought for each other by Kelly Kennedy
  • One good dog by Susan Wilson

Steelcase Library:

  • Lock artist by Steve Hamilton
  • The first rule by Robert Crais
  • Treasure hunt by John Lescroart
  • Blood ties by Kay Hooper
  • Doors open by Ian Rankin
  • The wolf at the door by Jack Higgins
  • Winter garden by Kristin Hannah
  • Wife’s tale by Lori Lansens
  • Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
  • Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein
  • Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson

New titles in popular reading collections at Zumberge and Steelcase

November 23rd, 2009

Come browse the newest popular reading titles in Zumberge Library’s Café Bibliothèque and the Steelcase Library Reading Room! You can also search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors. Did you know books from this collection can be delivered to any of the GVSU libraries, including the Frey Foundation Learning Center? It’s easy – just ask us how! You can give us a call at 616-331-3500 or chat with us.

Below are the latest titles received. Stay tuned for further additions; new titles arrive every month.

Zumberge Library:

  • Pilgrims by Garrison Keillor
  • There goes the bride by M.C. Beaton
  • Pursuit of honor by Vince Flynn
  • Blood game by Iris Johansen
  • K2 by Ed Viesturs
  • Breaking the rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Gates by John Connolly
  • Scarpetta factor by Patricia Cornwell
  • Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates by T. Cathcart & D. Klein
  • Ghost king by R.A. Salvatore
  • You better not cry by Augusten Burroughs
  • A blue and gray Christmas by Joan Medlicott
  • I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
  • Broken jewel by David L. Robbins
  • New York by Edward Rutherfurd
  • Michael by editors of Rolling Stone
  • Bon Jovi
  • Last words by George Carlin
  • Rainwater by Sandra Brown
  • Paul McCartney by Peter Carlin
  • Googled by Ken Auletta
  • Under the dome by Stephen King
  • Have a little faith by Mitch Albom
  • Knit the season by Kate Jacobs

Steelcase Library:

  • Even money by Dick Francis
  • Most evil by Steve Hodel
  • Gotti confidential by Victoria Gotti
  • Google speaks by Janet Lowe
  • 13 ½ by Nevada Barr
  • The murder business by Mark Fuhrman
  • America for sale by Jerome R. Corsi
  • Humbling by Philip Roth
  • Abandoned by Cody McFadyen
  • Haiku by Andrew Vachss
  • Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

New titles in popular reading collections at Zumberge and Steelcase

September 22nd, 2009

Come browse the newest popular reading titles in Zumberge Library’s Café Bibliothèque and the Steelcase Library Reading Room! You can also search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors. Did you know books from this collection can be delivered to any of the GVSU libraries, including the Frey Foundation Learning Center? It’s easy – just ask  us how! You can give us a call at 616-331-3500 or chat with us.

Below are the latest titles received. Stay tuned for further additions; new titles arrive every month.

Zumberge Library:

  • Seven days of rage by Paul LaRosa
  • Shooting stars by Lebron James
  • True Compass by Edward M. Kennedy
  • Homer and Langley by E.. L. Doctorow
  • Evil at heart by Chelsea Cain
  • Vanishing act by Fern Michaels
  • Little bird of heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Lost art of gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Think no evil by Jonas Beiler
  • Barack and Michelle by Christopher Andersen
  • Twenties girl by Sophie Kinsella
  • Wilderness warrior by Douglas Brinkley
  • Accidental billionaires by Ben Mezrich
  • Never give up on your dream by Warren Moon
  • Born to play by Dustin Pedroia
  • Fire and ice by J. A. Jance
  • Library by Stuart Murray

Steelcase Library:

  • Resurrecting midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Ladies of the lake by Haywood Smith
  • The last song by Nicholas Sparks
  • Homeland by Barbara Hambly
  • Big little life by Dean Koontz
  • Speech-less by Matt Latimer
  • A change in Altitude by Anita Shreve
  • 206 bones by Kathy Reichs
  • Blindman’s bluff by Faye Kellerman
  • Hell’s Gate by Stephen Frey
  • Smash cut by Sandra Brown
  • Rules of vengeance by Christopher Reich
  • Cult insanity by Irene Spencer
  • That old cape magic by Richard Russo
  • Dragons of the hourglass mage by Margaret Weis
  • Alibi by Teri Woods
  • Hunted by Brian Haig
  • Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks

Library Palooza! – September 10th

August 27th, 2009

Puzzled? Let the University Libraries help put all the pieces together. Come to the Fifth Annual Library Palooza on Thursday, September 10 and get acquainted with University Libraries’ faculty, staff, and services. There’ll be games and snacks at all three locations so stop by

Zumberge Library on the Allendale Campus from 11am – 3pm
Steelcase Library
on the Pew Campus from noon – 6pm
Frey Foundation Learning Center at the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences from noon – 6pm

Don’t forget to download and solve the 2009 Library Palooza Puzzler. Correct submissions will be entered into a drawing for an iPod Shuffle!

Popular reading collection at Steelcase

June 2nd, 2009

A popular reading collection is now available at the Steelcase Library in the DeVos Center of the Pew campus downtown. Like its sister collection in the Café Bibliothèque area at the Zumberge Library on the Allendale campus, new titles arrive every month. You can browse the collection, or search the library’s catalog for specific titles or authors.


Please note that only current GVSU students, staff, and faculty may check out books from this collection. Books circulate for a nonrenewable four week period. For more information about the popular reading collections, contact the library at 1-3500.

Need a break from your studies?

February 10th, 2009

Relax with magazines from the Steelcase Library’s new leisure reading magazine collection. We now are, or soon will be, receiving the following:

  • Entertainment Weekly
  • Glamour
  • Men’s Health
  • National Geographic
  • New Yorker
  • Newsweek
  • People
  • Rolling Stone
  • Sports Illustrated
  • Time
  • U.S. News & World Report
  • US Weekly

You’ll find these on top of the book shelves just inside the reading room.

Be sure to check out the new books section, too. They’re in the display case right across from the entrance doors.

RefWorks classes at Steelcase Library

January 26th, 2009

RefWorks, the reference manager program, can save you lots of time and angst. This week the Steelcase Library is providing RefWorks instruction to help you get started with this powerful program. These half-hour sessions are designed to help you get started with RefWorks and provide individual assistance.

All sessions are from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. January 26, 27, 28, and 29 in the Steelcase Library instruction room. Attend one, or attend them all. Refreshments will be provided; no reservations required. For more information, call 331-7338.

Library 101: Learn how to use library resources

January 9th, 2009

Stymied by the plethora of library resources available to you? Don’t know where to start?

Attending one or more of the half-hour workshops at the Steelcase Library can help you figure it all out. The first series, Library 101, will show you how to:
- navigate the library’s home page
- find books and other items in the library’s catalog
- effectively locate articles in databases
- obtain books or articles from other libraries

All sessions are from 5:15 to 5:45 p.m. January 12, 13, 14, and 15. Attend one, or attend them all. Librarians will be available to answer any questions and provide individual assistance. Refreshments will be provided; no reservations required. For more information, call 331-7338.